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Painting With Charcoal

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Charcoal art is a form of art used as a dry art medium. Like compressed charcoal and charcoal sticks, which charcoal powder and different types of CHARCOAL: Charcoal-vine, compressed, pencil form is used. Charcoal has remained a popular medium for drawing since the Renaissance. The medium is prized for its ability to produce an interplay between light and shadow known as chiaroscuro.

What you will learn
  1. Element of art called value.
  2. Techniques using the medium of charcoal and rendering with value.
  3. Shading: Highlight, Shade, Shadow, Reflected Light and Cast Shadow.
  4. Shading techniques by rendering two-dimensional shapes so that they appear realistically three-dimensional.
  5. Types of Strokes: Edge, sides strokes
  6. Creating Value Scales: Blending (hatching, cross-hatching, pressure strokes)
  7. Blending charcoal with your fingers, scumbling, masking
Who this course is for:
Beginner artists and creatives that want to learn beginner Charcoal painting.

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Class Details

3 Session(s)
Weekly - Mon

Location
Los Angeles Valley College

Instructor
Carmen MacDonald 

 

Notice

Please read:  Students must purchase the required materials for the class.

Tuition: 

$79.00

Schedule Information

Date(s) Class Days Times Location Instructor(s)
4/15/2024 - 4/29/2024 Weekly - Mon 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM Valley Glen, Los Angeles Valley College  Map Carmen MacDonald 

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